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I have a friend who, when asked for a donation to charity, says, quite comfortably, “I don’t give to charity.”
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5/10/12
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Stories compel. Statistics numb. When I wrote last week about 30,000 children under the age of 5 who died of starvation in drought-ravaged East Africa in 2011, my guess is the number, tragic as it is, did not linger in the mind.
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1/12/12
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To celebrate the lives of three young Camp ANCHOR counselors who died in a tragic car accident last July, and to raise money for the foundations and scholarships established in their names, the Malone-Mulhall Benefit Basketball Game is set for July 30 at St. John’s University at 1:30 p.m. The event will also include three-point and dunk contests.
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Judy Rattner
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7/6/11
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As part of its effort to reduce the budget without raising taxes, Nassau County announced last month that it would be cutting contracts with many organizations. Among those was the Meals on Wheels …
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Alex Costello
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4/20/11
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Merokean Liz O’Shaughnessy swung by the cement-gray trailer at the east end of Bennington Avenue in Freeport in November 2008.
“The place was packed,” recalled O’Shaughnessy of the facility, squeezed between a window factory and a truck yard, which gives immigrant day laborers a safe place to wait for landscapers and contractors to pick them up for jobs.
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Scott Brinton
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9/21/10
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Behind the purple sign and the boutique feel of Plum, a resale shop that opened in May, is a purpose. All profits go to several charities with programs designed to help both children and adults in a variety of situations.
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Teri-Ann Loeser
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7/28/10
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